Sausage-stuffing machine.



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SAUSAGE STUFFING. MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.11. 1912.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

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v. PRIBAN.

SAUSAGE STUFFING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.11, 1912.

1,107,184. Patented Aug.11,1914,

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VACLAV Parent, or PRAGUE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

= SA'p'S AGE-STUFFING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

Application filed Hatch 11, 1912. Serial No. 683,079.

made by hand, lacking a suitable machine,

with which the more complicated designs couldbe executed: this hitherto customary method of manufacture is however, expensive, unhygienic, and does not permit of an accurate and uniform execution of more complicated fancy-designs.

The object of my invention is to provide a machine, which will facilitate a hygienic and economical manufacture of sausages with accurately and uniformly executed cross-sectional fancy designs whereby one machine may be used for executing various designs.

My inventionconsists in the novel construction, v combination and arrangement of its componentparts, as will be hereinafter more fully explained in connection with the drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of one form of machine accordin to the invention, Figs. 2 and 3 are details 0 the machine in longitudinal section and in plan view, respectively; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the machine; F 1g. 5 is a longitudinal section through a part of the machine; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show byway of example various multicolor sect onal fancy-designs for sausages.

The essential part of the machine is a cylindrical piece A, shown in Figs. 2 and 3, containing a plurality of conaxial cylindrical spaces or chambers, which are open on both ends. The conaxially arranged cylindrical walls which separate the several annular spaces are interconnected by suitable bridges and are threaded on both ends. This piece A, which is provided with a hexagonal flange, is screwed on to the body of the machine, which contains a number of bins or receptacles, equal to the number of differently colored sorts of minced meat of which the sausage is to consist. Each of these bins, which are preferably formed in the shape of cylinders provided with pistons, discharges into one of the above mentionedjannular spaces of the piece A. To the threaded ends 26, 29, 32 of the annular walls of the piece A are screwed metal forms 27, 30, 33 (Fig. 1) all of which, with the exception of the outer form 27, merge gradually from acircular section to such shape or section as it is desired to impart to the sausage. The outer form 27 retains a circular cross section of a diameter equal to the required diameter of the sausage. Thus, accord'ing to Fig. 6, all three forms will have circular cross sectional form, and according to Fig. 7, the middle form 30 will gradually change into the sectional shape of an asterisk, whil if a pattern according to Fig. 8 is desired, the middle form 30" will be changed into four'separate divisions of a wedge-like sectional shape. v The bins or cylinders from which the different kinds of minced meat are pressed into the'openings of the'piece A can be arranged, either conaxially, behind each other, or-parallel to yoke 10.. The bottom 2, of the cylinder 1, is

provided with a central bore 3 having female threads, into which the threaded. end 25 of said piece A is turned. The outer annular space of said piece A communicates with the inner space of cylinder 1, while as continuations of the other openings of said piece A, tubes 19, 23 are provided, which are screwed on to the threaded upper ends 28, 31,

of the cylindrical walls of said piece A. A

cylinder 12, closed on both ends and provided with concentrical bore both in its bottom 11 and in its lid 13, is guided on said tubes 19, 23, in such a manner that the outer tube 23 fits into the bore in the bottom 11, while the inner longer tube 19 fits in the bore in the lid 13. A second cylinder 14,. of

a smaller diameter, is firmly and axially at-' tached to the lid 13, of cylinder 12, and is closed by a lid 15, to the outer surface of which a threaded spindle 35 is attached,

- so as to fit accurately in the open cylinder 1.

The closed cylinders 12and 14 are provided with freely acting pistons 20 and 16 which have central openings 21 and 17 of such diameters as to allow the tubes 23 and 19 to.

pass therethrough up to their abuttingrims 20 and 16. Elastic rings 22 and 18 can be attached to the pistons 20"and 16 to eliminate noise. The whole machine can be tilted and.

the frame, by means of a screw 43, which engages into. a semicircular slot 42, of a segment 41, attached to the bar 5, the'screw 43 being held in an-opening of the frame piece 8 by the nut 44, by means of which the segment 41 can be secured to the frame (Fig. 4).

The operation of the: machine is as follows: For thepurpose of filling the cylinders with variously colored minced meat, the machine is swung into a vertical position on the frame 789, as-illustrated in Fig. 1, and the lids of the closed cylinders are removed suflicientlyto permit of filling the cylinder, whereupon each cylinder receives a measured charge. \Vhen the lids are fastened, the connected cylinders 12, 14 are anchored by means of the handle 40, till the bottom 11 comes incontact with the charge contained in the cylinder 1. At the same .time the pistons 20 and 16 are engaged by the tubes 23 and 19, which bear upon the abutting rims 20" and 16', as shown in Fig. 5. The machine having been tilted and secured in the desired operating position preferablyhorizontal, a suitable metallic form 27, 30, 33 is screwed on to the threaded open ends 26, 29, 32 of the piece A. The skin, into which the sausage is to be filled, is at tached .to the metallic form 27 and by op erating the'handle 40, a continuous stream of minced meat, having a cross-section of the desired multicolor concentrical pattern (as shown'for instance in Figs. 6, 7 and 8) is pressed into the skin, the variously colored charges of the several cylinders orbins being simultaneously discharged at a uniform rate of speed through the several concentric openings of the piece A. It is evident, that this machine can be constructed with an desired number of bins or cylinders, wlthin reasonable limits, without departing from ornamented cakes, sweets and other confectionery, and I therefore do not clann such a combination broadly, but

What I claim and desire to secure by Let- .te'rs Patent, is: secured in any desired angle, with respect to 1. A sausage stuffing machine, comprising cylinders havlngpistons, independent outlet tubes for said cylinders adapted to engage said pistons, means effecting relative movements of said cylinders with respect to said outlet tubes to actuate said pistons and effect discharge of material through said tubes, and the die chambers having a common point of discharge communicating with said outlet tubes.

2. A sausage stufiing machine comprising a cylinder provided with an axial opening, an outlet tube extending from said opening, a second tube concentrically mounted rigidly within the first tube and extending through the cylinder, said second tube having its wall in spaced. relation to the wall of the first tube, a secondcylinder mounted to telescope within the first cylinder having an opening through which the second tube passes, a piston in the second cylinder so connected to the seoondtube that it will be advanced in said second cylinder as the second cylinder telescopes Within the first cylinder, said piston having an opening communicating with thesecond tube, and means to move the second cylinder whereby when said second cyl inder is advanced to telescope within the first cylinder said piston will be advanced in said second cylinder and material contained in the cylinders will be expressed through the respective outlet pipes, said second cylinder acting as a piston within the first cylinder.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto afiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

VACLAV PRIBAN. 

